Education
J.D., with highest honors, University of Florida School of Law, 1990

Managing Editor, Florida Law Review

Outstanding Law Graduate, University of Florida College of Law Faculty and National Association of Women Lawyers

Order of the Coif

B.A., with highest honors, University of Florida

Bar Memberships
Georgia

Alexa Ross

Alexa represents businesses in contract-related disputes, particularly those involving fraud and bad faith.  Alexa's recent representations include Aretha Franklin’s management company whose suit involves VH-1's failure to distribute a Diva’s Live concert CD and DVD; a group of Internet business investors who have sued a major private-equity buyout firm and its acquired travel-industry publisher for investor fraud; and a New York-based litigation management software company that sued an entertainment industry giant.

Alexa is one of the nation's foremost experts in charter school law. She serves on the Advisory Board of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools and is a featured speaker at its annual conventions, as well as the annual Georgia Charter Schools Association. She has advised and represented major charter school management companies, including national Heritage Academies, Edison Schools, KIPP Schools, and Imagine Schools, and advises the Georgia Attorney General’s Office regarding charter school legislation. Currently, Alexa serves as an advisor to the Attorney General in his office’s defense against a state constitutional challenge to the statute that created the Georgia Charter Schools Commission. Alexa’s expertise includes all areas of charter school creation, organization and operation, such as federal and state funding, school governance and management, protection from liability for staff actions, and employment matters.

Alexa also has significant experience advising and representing school districts and charter schools regarding the law governing educating students with disabilities. She has represented some of the largest and well-known school districts in the state, including Fulton, Rockdale, and Fayette Counties. She served as lead counsel in Mandy S. v. Fulton County School District, 205 F.Supp.2d 1358 (2000), aff'd, 273 F.3d 1114 (11th Cir. (Ga.) Sept. 05, 2001) (Table, No.00-15160).

Alexa's commitment to education carries into her private life. Her pro bono work includes serving on the Board of Directors of the Coralwood School and Diagnostic Center Foundation and on the Advisory Council of Immaculate Heart of Mary School. Alexa also has served on the Board of Directors of the Georgia Association for Women Lawyers.